> But the Tower of Hanoi can be solved without "tools" by humans, simply by understanding the problem, thinking about the solution, and writing it out.
The paper doesn't give any evidence humans are able to do this. And I honestly find it very implausible. Even Gary Marcus admits in (1) that humans would probably make mistakes.
You are aware that humans created and solved the puzzle in the first place, right? Not sure I understand this line of reasoning that if there are humans in this world incapable of solving some problem then boom, checkmate, LLMs can reason about and understand problems like humans do.
The paper doesn't give any evidence humans are able to do this. And I honestly find it very implausible. Even Gary Marcus admits in (1) that humans would probably make mistakes.